government might shut down, it was almost like journalists woke up and said, hey, soldiers in iraq and afghanistan are not going to get their paychecks to feed their families which would have been an outrage. >> that's true. every veteran journalist knew how this would work out, 11:00 p.m. on friday they would get a deal. but we all had to cover the story like it was a real thing. >> they portrayed the ideology. do you think the press did enough to cover that side of the fight as opposed to the winners, the losers and the countdown clock, the theatrics surrounding it? >> it was hard to cover. we didn't know we were part of these negotiations for so long. we didn't actually know it was in the agreement. then it comes out last minute. is it really about planned parenthood? if you think about it, it was an absolutely absurd reason not to have a budget deal because of $360 million that goes to family planning services. the democrats did for one day make a very good job of making that an issue. >> democrats made a lot of concessions here, $38 billion in spending cuts. yes, this is just a six-month budg